Apache Kid

"Apache Kid," the notorious outlaw and other reckless border bandits of his kind, no longer hold up the Deadwood coach, command river and passengers to hold up their hands under penalty of being riddled with bullets, and then ride away on their fleet ponies loaded with plunder.

From a dramatic as well as an historic standpoint, however, the Deadwood stage coach holdup holds a fascinating interest to the public of these more prosaic days, and the reproduction of one of those thrilling events in the performance of the Oklahoma Ranch Wild West, which exhibits in Pawnee, Friday, September 19th is said to create a sensation.
For the purpose of the drama, it is announced a genuine old-time deadwood stage has been secured. The driver is one of the original Wells-Fargo messengers, who, in the language of his time, would "rather fight than eat." Some of the old scouts and frontiersmen who ride in the coach have actually had the experience of being held up by border bandits. The stage drawn by four army mules comes dashing down the arena. As it turns the corner on the second lap, a band of marauders dashes out of ambush surround the coach shoot the driver, and compel the passengers to alight. It is all done so quickly that there is no chance for defense. The passengers are relieved of their valuables, and the safe, containing an express shipment of gold is blown open. Just when it seems that the bandits will escape with their ill-gotten plunder, there is the sound of many horses; feet, and a band of scouts and cowboys, led by Col. Zack Mulhall, the famous Oklahoma ranchman, in the role of sheriff, get into the picture. There is a sharp exchange of shots; those of the bandits who do not fall are captured, another driver is substituted and escorted by the sheriff and his posse, with the prisoners held at ends of the riders' lariats, the coach starts on its long journey again. This is not the reproduction of a figment of imagination but, it is declared to be an actual representation o a scene enacted hundreds of times in the old days on the plains.
A most varied and interesting performance is promised for the Oklahoma Ranch show. Scores of Indians, cowboys, cowgirls, Mexicans and Cossacks, bull-fighters, crack shots, expert ropers, famous bronco-busters and others combine in a show that is said to be superior to anything of its kind ever presented in this country. A new and mammoth street parade will inaugurate Wild West Day at 10:30 a.m.

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